Scientific program:

The workshop will start on Monday morning (May 30) at 9 a.m. and stop on Thursday (June 2) at noon. The first two days (Monday May 30 and Tuesday May 31) are dedicated to the memory of Fritz Grunewald and will focus on recent developments of mathematical work in his spirit.

Monday, May 30

08.00-08.30		Registration (for those not yet registered)
08.30-08.45	Auditorium	Opening of the Workshop
08.45-09.45	Auditorium	Alex Lubotzky Sieve methods in group theory: applications to Aut(Fn) and the mapping class group.
09.45-10.15	the Hall	Coffee and tea break
10.15-11.15	Auditorium	Anna Wienhard Domains of Discontinuity for Anosov representation.
11.25-11.50	Iridia 1	Bartosz Putrycz Generators of crystallographic groups and actions on flat orbifolds.
	Iridia 3	Frederic Palesi Teichmuller components of non-orientable surface.
12.00-12.25	Iridia 1	Olympia Talelli On the Gorenstein dimension of soluble groups.
	Iridia 3	Sean Lawton Character Varieties and Group-Valued Quiver Representations.
		Lunch
14.00-14.25	Iridia 1	Nansen Petrosyan Crystallographic actions on contractible algebraic manifolds.
	Iridia 3	Shelly Garion Triangle groups, finite simple groups and applications to Beauville surfaces.
14.35-15.00	Iridia 1	Dietrich Burde Constructing faithful Lie algebra representations.
	Iridia 3	Tatiana Bandman Geometry and dynamics of some word maps on SL(2,BFq).
15.10-15.35	Iridia 1	Pasha Zusmanovich Novikov structures on Kac-Moody and modular semisimple Lie algebras.
	Iridia 3	Gautami Bhowmik Counting classes of classical groups.
15.40-16.10	the Hall	Coffee and tea break
16.10-16.35	Iridia 1	Mathieu Carette Length spectrum rigidity of primitive elements in the free group.
	Iridia 3	Matthew Stover Geometric generators and Fuchsian subgroups of arithmetic lattices.
16.45-17.30	Auditorium	Karel Dekimpe What an infra-nilmanifold endomorphism really should be....

Tuesday, May 31

08.30-09.30	Auditorium	Alan Reid Distinguishing residually finite groups by their finite quotients.
09.30-10.00	the Hall	Coffee and tea break
10.00-11.00	Auditorium	Martin Bridson Decision problems and the nature of groups with isomorphic profinite completions.
11.15-12.00	Auditorium	Oliver Baues Deformations and Rigidity of Lattices in Solvable Lie Groups.
		Lunch
14.00-???		Social event: Excursion to Bruges + Conference Dinner

Wednesday, June 1

08.30-09.30	Auditorium	Alain Valette Compression and equivariant compression for metric spaces and groups.
09.30-10.25	the Hall	Coffee and tea break + Poster Session
10.25-11.25	Auditorium	Ursula Hamenstädt Handlebody groups and mapping class groups: Similarities and differences.
11.35-12.00	Iridia 1	Yoshinobu Kamishima Infrasolv-towers and smooth rigidity of geometric aspherical manifolds.
	Iridia 3	Eric Freden From Indexed Languages to Generating Functions.
		Lunch
14.00-14.25	Iridia 1	Jim Davis Topological rigidity and H1-negative involutions on tori.
	Iridia 3	Clara Rossi Salvemini Globally hyperbolic conformally flat maximal space-times.
14.35-15.00	Iridia 1	Marek Halenda Flat Calabi-Yau manifolds.
	Iridia 3	Ralf Gramlich On centralisers of almost compact involutions of split Kac-Moody groups.
15.10-15.35	Iridia 1	Rafal Lutowski Holonomy groups of flat manifolds with R-infinity property.
	Iridia 3	Koen Struyve On the existence problem of Bruhat-Tits buildings.
15.35-16.05	the Hall	Coffee and tea break
16.05-16.30	Iridia 1	Suhyoung Choi The convex real projective manifolds and orbifolds with radial ends: the openness of deformations.
	Iridia 3	Thilo Kuessner Volume and Mutation.
16.40-17.05	Iridia 1	Gye-Seon Lee Projective deformations of hyperbolic Coxeter orbifolds.
	Iridia 3	Stefan Kühnlein Well-rounded sublattices in the plane.
17.15-18.00	Auditorium	Todd A. Drumm Equidistant hypersurfaces of the bidisk.

Thursday, June 2

08.30-09.30	Auditorium	Ludovic Marquis Finite volume quotient of Hilbert Geometry.
09.30-10.00	the Hall	Coffee and tea break
10.00-11.00	Auditorium	William Goldman Examples of deformation spaces of geometric structures.
11.10-11.35	Iridia 1	Virginie Charette Groups generated by Lorentzian involutions.
	Iridia 3	Dmitry Malinin Some discrete subgroups of Lie groups and finite arithmetic groups.
11.45-12.30	Auditorium	Karin Melnick Normal forms for conformal vector fields on Lorentzian manifolds.
12.30-12.45	Auditorium	Closing of the workshop
		Lunch

Social event / excursion:

On Tuesday afternoon (May 31) there will be an excursion to Bruges, where also the conference dinner will take place.

The program for this excursion is as follows (tentative time-table):

• 2.00 p.m. Pick up at the conference hotel and departure from Oostende, by coach.
• 2.30 p.m. Walk from busstop at Bruges to city-centre.
• 3.00 p.m. Visit (with guide) of the Governor's Residence, right in the heart of the city centre. Drink offered by the Governor.
• 4.30 p.m. Feel free at Bruges. As Bruges is small, and we will be right in the city-centre, lot's of possibilities are there to visit by yourself. Quite popular are guided visits by horse-carriage or by boat-trip, but also walking around is definitely an option.
• 7.15 p.m. Conference dinner will be held at Duc De Bourgogne, located at one of the nicest spots in the historical centre of the city.
• After the conference dinner, and walking back to the coach, return to Oostende

Karel Dekimpe , Paul Igodt, Nansen Petrosyan Department of Mathematics Research Group Algebraic Topology and Group Theory K.U.Leuven Campus Kortrijk (KULAK) B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium e-mail: workshop@kuleuven-kortrijk.be Fax: +32 - 56 24 69 99 (attn. Karel Dekimpe)